Deluxe Hot Chocolate

It’s that time of year.  Once the first snow falls, we here at the Child’s Play household usher in the ‘Hot Chocolate’ season.  We get the supersized Hot Chocolate mix from Costco, a bunch of super secret ingredients, and then prepare ourselves for some of the best drinks around town.
 
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Leaf Inspector

Once upon a time, there was a sassy princess with a very important job.

When the leaves fell, she was in charge of checking to see they’d all achieved the correct color…that the reds, yellows, and oranges were the proper vivid shade.
Some of them don’t pass inspection.

Once all the leaves on the ground were inspected, the [...]

Overheard…

Tonight was a rather late night due to the double header of “Fearless Planet” on the Discovery Channel, and “Ocean of Fear: The Sinking of the Lusitania” on one of our HDTV channels.
The Naturalist and Golfer climbed into their bunk beds later than usual, and as I walked passed their room I overheard [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

In honor of Tom the Turkey, we will not be eating any fowl this year. Really, we don’t eat turkey very much anyways…but now we have a good reason not to. The plan is to have all the food ready to eat by 2:30 this afternoon. That way we can gorge ourselves [...]

What’s keeping me busy.

Well, the most obvious thing is making all the plans for Thanksgiving Day. What to cook, what to do, what to cook…oh, and what to eat. Actually, our menu doesn’t change much from year to year, so at this point it’s just a matter of getting the food and assembling as much of [...]

Something happened on the way to the playroom…

A few days ago, I tucked the Sassy Princess into her bed to take a nice snuggly nap after lunch. I had big plans to clean our playroom, which is always easier to do if she’s sound asleep and totally incapable of coming in behind me to dump out all the containers I carefully [...]

Welcome Visitors

Every so often, the kids and I like to call up the sitemeter and see who’s visited us here. The Golfer is a total statistician and loves the graphs of how many visitors from each continent/country/etc. Every time we check how many visits we’ve had, he gets all excited and then says, “Only [...]

Home Again, Jiggity Jog.

My trip to Utah was lovely…nothing but the open road, my best friend, meals at restaurants, and a ton of good smelling soaps ‘n stuff in my minivan. 5 days all to myself! Well, not really to myself, as I was selling at the Gift Show an average of 9 hours a day. [...]

Over and Out!

I’m off to slave away, selling my soaps and stuff to the discerning public in Sandy, Utah. The days will be quite long, and the kids are back with Head Daddy in Colorado, so I won’t have many stories to write here. But, You are welcome to visit my other blog to hear [...]

You Say You Want A Revolution…

I’m beginning to experience why ideas and education are the first things to be controlled in oppressive regimes. Education leads to…thoughts. Ideas. Connections. Expression. Discussion. And yes, Revolution.

I, being the Head Mamma around here, am in a position of Exalted and Sovereignly Great Dictator. Especially when the [...]